Susie Davidson / brookline@wickedlocal.com
You know them. We know them. And we ve all heard them. The Winiker Brothers are a Brookline institution, making music to go with our memories for almost 60 years.
Bo and Bill are lifelong musicians. With Bo on horns and vocals and Bill on drums, along with regular band members, they re ubiquitous at weddings, events, bar and bat mitzvahs, and holiday gatherings. They ve had several long area residencies as well. We performed in the Last Hurrah at the Parker House Hotel from 1977 to 1991, six evenings a week, plus Sunday afternoon brunch, said Bill. Each performance was with a six-piece swing band, and their original contract was for six weeks.
Guide to the 2021 Virtual Gaithersburg Book Festival
Another year, another Gaithersburg Book Festival (GBF). But for the second year in a row, the festival will operate virtually.
Gaithersburg Mayor Jud Ashman, the founder of the popular event, spoke to MyMCM about what to expect at this year’s Virtual Gaithersburg Book Festival:
The Virtual Gaithersburg Book Festival begins Saturday, May 1 and there will be activities for four consecutive weeks. All author discussions (listed below) will premiere on the GBF’s YouTube page. Most programs are prerecorded, but authors will participate in the YouTube Premiere chat discussions.
The first two weeks of programming will be geared toward adults and the final two weeks of programming are aimed at children and young adults.
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A look at religion as itâs experienced every day; an inspiring new childrenâs book; and a tribute to those Public Garden ducks
By Nina MacLaughlin Globe Correspondent,Updated April 22, 2021, 4:38 p.m.
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Healing spirits
A woman named Donna Haskins tells a young man in Boston that heâd play basketball again, despite a hip surgery that had ended his college sports career. Her words have more power than the young man originally believes possible. Onaje X. O. Woodbineâs layered and insightful new book, âTake Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophetâs Encounters in the Spirit Worldâ (Columbia University) looks at religion as itâs experienced not in chapels, churches, temples, or mosques, but in the everyday world and individual bodies of Black women in Boston. Woodbine writes of Haskinsâs awareness of and experience with âan-other dimension, a nonmaterial world,â one not defi
Susie Davidson / brookline@wickedlocal.com The Oxford Dictionary’s words of the year for 2020 include blursday, doomscrolling and infodemic, said author Cynthia Levinson. Time Magazine’s include the first two of these, as well as social distancing and quarantini, she added.
But Levinson s personal word of the year is hunker. Because that’s what I did hunker at home from March 14, 2020, the date of my last trip-of-the-year to a grocery store, until Jan. 8, 2021, the date I was unblinded by the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial, she explained.
Levinson writes mostly nonfiction for kids, and spent almost all of her hunkering time writing. Fortunately, writing entails a lot of seat-in-chair, she said. So, staying home was actually conducive to getting work done.